Yuppie Breakup

NAMES AND FACES

December 8, 1989

AH, THE high cost of divorce. In the new black comedy The War of the Roses, Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas play a divorcing yuppie couple who continue living together for fear the other will get a better property settlement. In the course of their battle they trash their most valued and costly possessions. In two scenes alone they destroy a genuine $25,000 Morgan car and a $4,000 oven. In other scenes, director Danny DeVito made do with cheaper facsimiles made to look like $35,000 worth of Staffordshire plates, $60,000 worth of Biedermeier furniture, a $60,000 chandelier and $15,000 worth of Rosenthal china.